Stages of the CTO Lifecycle
CTO Think Podcast21 Touko 2019

Stages of the CTO Lifecycle

This week we review an old, but good, blog post by Andy Skipper named "Looking at the life of the CTO through the stages." We discuss our own experiences across these stages and the ones we haven't reached, yet. Randy also continues his rant on tech developer/manager hiring practices, so no surprise there!

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